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<blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 3736297" data-attributes="member: 94">Very good post, Elder-Basilisk.My biggest concerns with 4e are congealing around &quot;stylistic choices.&quot;I am all for streamlining the play and fixing the kludgy mechanics, but not at the expense of changing the stylistic feel of D&amp;D.Simply changing the paradigm to &quot;per encounter&quot; abilities is, perforce, going to increase the power of the PCs, and I can accept that, to a degree. I don't have a problem with the PCs keeping about the same power level they have in 3.5, but allowing them to apply that power more consistently across the span of the adventuring &quot;session&quot; without having to derail the fun while they recharge.I do have a problem with cranking the power level up so that four 1st level PCs can handle 20 goblins. That's not a design change that I have ever craved, consciously or subconsciously.And, incidentally, we can gather from other playtest reports that PCs are going to be getting a lot more powerful compared to their counterparts, without the necessity of magic items...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wulf Ratbane, post: 3736297, member: 94"] Very good post, Elder-Basilisk. My biggest concerns with 4e are congealing around "stylistic choices." I am all for streamlining the play and fixing the kludgy mechanics, but not at the expense of changing the stylistic feel of D&D. Simply changing the paradigm to "per encounter" abilities is, perforce, going to increase the power of the PCs, and I can accept that, to a degree. I don't have a problem with the PCs keeping about the same power level they have in 3.5, but allowing them to apply that power more consistently across the span of the adventuring "session" without having to derail the fun while they recharge. I do have a problem with cranking the power level up so that four 1st level PCs can handle 20 goblins. That's not a design change that I have ever craved, consciously or subconsciously. And, incidentally, we can gather from other playtest reports that PCs are going to be getting a lot more powerful compared to their counterparts, [i]without[/i] the necessity of magic items... [/QUOTE]

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